RCMP control access to the 12500 blk of Colebrook Road. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has been called in after two more bodies were found on Surrey's Colebrook Road early this morning.Ian Lindsay
/ PNG

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) on the scene of a double homicide involving a man and a woman on Colebrook Road and 125A St in Surrey, March 13, 2013. A routine police patrol discovered a man's body at approximately 2:30am and the second body, that of a woman was discovered by a polices dog shortly afterwards.Nick Procaylo
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Police talk to area residents about two bodies dumped on Colebrook Road in SUrrey.Kim Bolan
/ Vancojuver Sun

Surrey RCMP block the section of Colebrook Road where two bodies were found early Wednesday morning.JACOB ZINN
/ Surrey NOW

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) on the scene of a double homicide involving a man and a woman on Colebrook Road and 125A St in Surrey, March 13, 2013. A routine police patrol discovered a man's body at approximately 2:30 am and the second body, that of a woman was discovered by a polices dog shortly afterwards.Nick Procaylo
/ PNG

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) on the scene of a double homicide involving a man and a woman on Colebrook Road and 125A St in Surrey, March 13, 2013. A routine police patrol discovered a man's body at approximately 2:30am and the second body, that of a woman was discovered by a polices dog shortly afterwards.Nick Procaylo
/ PNG

RCMP control access to the 12500 blk of Colebrook Road February 24, 2013 in Surrey. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has been called in after two more bodies were found on Surrey's Colebrook Road early this morning.Ian Lindsay
/ PNG

RCMP are investigating a new murder in Surrey after a body was found on Colebrook Road Monday morning.Ric Ernst
/ PNG

METRO VANCOUVER -- A 40-year-old woman gunned down with her roommate early Wednesday on Surrey’s Colebrook Road was convicted of unlawful confinement and assault in Alberta almost two decades ago.

Nicole Brochu was just 20 when she, her then-boyfriend, and a third person grabbed a man from his apartment during the night and confined and assaulted him — all because Brochu wrongfully thought he had abused her baby.

According to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, Brochu continued to rack up criminal convictions in Alberta through 2003 for fraud, uttering forged documents, mischief and another assault.

Before she and Brett Sheldon Lietz were killed on Colebrook Road Wednesday, they had been sharing a Surrey basement suite as friends, IHIT’s Sgt. Jennifer Pound said Thursday.

She said investigators are searching for a motive in the double murder.

Lietz, 54, had no criminal record in B.C., Pound said. Brochu was a mother of four.

“We do know the two victims were known to each other as they were living together as roommates. Our priority is to determine the details that led up to their murders and locate the person responsible,” Pound said.

She said unlike two other bodies dumped on Colebrook Road in January and February after being killed elsewhere, “it is likely that this shooting occurred on Colebrook Road where the bodies were located.”

Lietz and Brochu were Surrey’s ninth and 10th murder victims of 2013 in a bloody start to the new year.

Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts said Wednesday that police have told her that seven of this year’s slayings are gang-related.

Watts is looking at installing cameras and additional lighting along Colebrook Road, where four murder victims have been found dead since Jan. 28.

The rural road, with train tracks to the south and fields to the north, is overlooked by the palatial view homes of Panorama Ridge.

Pound said so far, investigators believe there are no links between the January and February slayings or between the earlier deaths and this week’s double slaying.

“It’s very early to say conclusively that all of the four victims found at this location are unrelated to each other, however, the flow of evidence to date supports the theory that they are not connected and only one of the victims had gang connections,” Pound said.

On Feb. 24, the body of Delta resident Amritpal (Paul) Saran was found burned and dumped on the road. On Jan. 28, Jaskaran Singh Sandhu was found dead along the same stretch. The gang-linked man had survived an earlier Coquitlam shooting.

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